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State:	West Bengal
Constituency:	Howrah
Total Votes Polled:	985507
Winner: INC	Priya Ranjan Das Munsi	459059
Runner Up: CPM	Susanta Chakraborty	425128
Margin: 33931 (3.54%)

The Congress won the first election in 1952, after which the CPI-M took over. The Congress won next only in 1967, after which again the CPI-M took over. The third Congress victory in 1984 was courtesy Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, who lost the next two rounds to the CPI-M's Susanta Chakraborty. In 1996, however, Dasmunshi defeated Chakraborty by 34,000 votes.